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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide : recent longitudinal evidence
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534885
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Immigrants, ethnic identities and the nation-state
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668271
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Cultural diversity and plant-level productivity
Trax, Michaela; Brunow, Stephan; Südekum, Jens - 2012
Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if "cultural diversity" affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and in the aggregate regional labor force where the plant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621855
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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793124
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Cultural integration : experimental evidence of changes in immigrants' preferences
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Erkal, Nisvan; Gangadharan, Lata; … - 2012
Cultural traits play a significant role in the determination of economic outcomes and institutions. This paper presents evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals of Chinese ethnicity in Australia, focusing on social preferences, preferences for competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535795
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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation : evidence from Dutch firm-level data
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important question for firms and for governments to ask whether there are some productivity-enhancing...
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The distribution of income in Central America
Gindling, Thomas; Trejos, Juan Diego - 2013
distributions of income in Latin America. At the other extreme, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua were among the most unequal … inequality in El Salvador and Nicaragua decreased while inequality in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras increased. By 2009 … and Nicaragua but increased in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras. -- income inequality ; Central America ; labour income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717882
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Gone with the storm : rainfall shocks and household well-being in Guatemala
Baez, Javier E.; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Genoni, Maria Eugenia - 2015
strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept - on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative … seen in urban Guatemala between 2006 and 2011, which national authorities and analysts previously attributed solely to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472574
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Women in paid employment: a role for public policies and social norms in Guatemala
Almeida, Rita; Viollaz, Mariana - 2022
With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805844
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Violence, development and migration waves : evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715876